Million Year Orbit Comet Heading Towards the Sun
Comet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet, discovered in 2013, was within the radius of Jupiter’s orbit when the Hubble Space Telescope…
Category Archives: Astronomy
Wow! Hubble is 24 and celebrates with stunning starbirth image
It is hard to believe, Hubble is 24 years old. Launched on April 24, 1990 astronomers have taken an infrared-light portrait of a roiling region of starbirth located 6,400 light-years…
Kepler Science Module Fails but Mission can continue
Preparations continue for the first K2 campaign in the ecliptic plane … if it is approved, following the 2014 Astrophysics Senior Review of Operating Missions. The vaunted Kepler Spacecraft had…
Hubble Captures Image of Type Ia Supernova
(NASA) – This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from…
Chandra Sees Runaway Pulsar Creating an Extraordinary Jet
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet – the longest of any object in the Milky Way…
Astronomers find one of the most distant galaxies known to date
NASA – An international team led by astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and La Laguna University (ULL) has just released the first analysis of the observations…
Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet
(NASA) Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water…
Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel
A photogenic and favorite target for amateur astronomers, the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83 is unveiled in all of its glory in this Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image….
